Koyosan and Kobe beef!

Old giant cemetary

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One of Japans many contradictions. This is in the corporate area of the 800 year old cemetary.

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Sitting here with a gorgeous view of downtown Kobe skyline enjoying a particularly bad Japanese beer thinking about how fantastic it can be to be over 10,000 km from anywhere familiar. Today we went from Koyosan, or Mt. Koyo to Kobe and spent most of the day either in transit or attempting to find the hostel.

Our victory in finally finding the hostel was eventually rewarded with several ekonimayike and brews, eventually leaving a cumulative tab  equivalent to a weeks grocery shopping in Canada. Either was, lesson learned and experienced. 

Tomorrow we are of to see moms friends, then an overnight ferry to Beppu on Kyushu Island. There should be excessive amounts of pottery and volcanoes. Cool pictures to come.

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Despite Japan having excessive prices due to their incredibly inefficient delivery system (ironically it is intentional so everyone has a job, trading low unemployment rate for high prices, keeps a happy economy) it somehow has incredibly cheap alcohol. Beer is par, but wine is from $5 bottle and hard alcohol is about 2/3 the price with a bottle of decent blended scotch going for $10+. Primo.